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Grave site of Skerrett Rogers, Fujian, China, ca. 1925

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Title: Grave site of Skerrett Rogers, Fujian, China, ca. 1925
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910/1930
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: The headstone of Skerrett Rogers is in the foreground. The grave site of Miss Harrison lies in the background covered in flowers. "God is love" is engraved into a large crucifix atop the headstone of Rogers. At the base of the headstone is the engraving: "Died 8th November 1901, Aged 32 years".
This photo is from the papers of Emily Susan Hartwell, who was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary stationed in Foochow, Fukien from 1884.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 12.2 x 7.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13660 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-094-0003-0062
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13660
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-094-0003-0062.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
General views
Time Period: 1910/1930
Place: Asia
China
Fukien
Source: YDS/RG008/094/0003/0062 [File]
Relation: Emily Susan Hartwell Papers
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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